It's said that they know, somehow, about internal illness/pain
A couple of years ago I'd have laughed and called bullshit if someone posted what I'm about to post.... but one of my mums cats kept doing the same thing. Persistently, out of character, pawing and nudging at her abdominal area and meowing.
She started to get intense pain soon after this started, and found out that she'd developed acute pancreatitis.
When she's having her 'pain days' the same cat and another one in her house do the same thing, as if to try and massage her pain away.
I'm not doolally (believe it or not 🤪), religious, believe in spirits/ the supernatural etc.....but I'm convinced there's something in this business of cats somehow knowing about illness or the onset of it.
I realise that post opens me up for ridicule and sounds absolutely bonkers, but it's a strange one.
I've read of many many other similar examples too.